May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and with summer right around the corner, it's a good reminder to check -- and protect -- your skin, especially for those who are at high risk for melanomas.
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There, a special machine called a Vectra lets the doctors know precisely how much they need to keep track of, which can be surprising, even to Rosato.There are only eight such Vectra machines in the U.S., and Sloan-Kettering has four of them. The Vectra creates a 3-D image of the entire surface of a person's skin, allowing dermatologists to track any changes that could indicate early stages of melanoma, and for patients like Rosato, it is a game changer.
He was only 29 years old when he found his first melanoma in 1997, at the beach when he took off his shirt. It was his mom who saved him, and she noticed the mole because she had just had melanoma herself."If at least once a month, or every other month, you're looking at your skin, become familiar with what is normal on your skin," Dr. Marghoob said."It's not a joke," he said."It's not just something you're going to scrape off your skin or get surgery.
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